Here is a link to the article in which the mural appeared in the Union Leader.
Here is a link to the photos of the unveiling of all three murals which appeared in the Union Leader.

This concept for this particular mural was conceived by the school's principal Rachelle M. Otero, who wanted a view represented in the space depicting the school's early days. I chose the reference photo of the school, circa 1900, feeling that the drawing class with a live dog was by far the most interesting image from that period.

The photo was reproduced very faithfully, with the exception of the content on the blackboard. It was decided that the lineage of the school's principals, from its opening to the present day, should be represented. I left room for extra names, so that future principals may be added.

This is one of three original murals done at Hallsville Elementary School under Rachelle M. Otero, Principal of Hallsville, during the Spring and Summer of 2012.

This particular mural featured the students themselves in the imagery, painted-in from my own photographs of them. In the "Art" section, the girls painted their original artwork onto the actual mural itself. The mural was about 35 feet long and 4 feet high, from chest level up to the ceiling.

Leftmost side of mural with credits

Reading

Art

Mathematics section

Sports

Writing

Detail of "Writing"

Music

Detail of "Music"

Detail of "Technology"

Technology

Here in another part of the building, more murals done in the stairwell, leading up from the front doors, into the classrooms. The idea was to encourage the children to enter the school with enthusiasm, sprouting wings to become more like the school mascot, which was a hawk.

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Cameron Bennett is an award-winning artist who has been painting and illustrating professionally since 1999. His artwork hangs in homes, libraries, lawfirms and universities, in the US and England, and several of his original cover illustrations were purchased for the people depicted in them, notably Governor John Lynch, Senate President Tom Eaton, and Pennichuck CEO Donald Correll. Other commissions of late include Joan Lukey, first woman president of the American College of Trial Lawyers; a posthumously painted portrait of Krystle Campbell, one of the three victims of the Boston Marathon bombings; and Denise Sqillante, President of the Massachusetts Bar Association. Cameron holds a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art, and a MFA degree from Lesley University.
He has taught for many years, both privately and at university level, and currently teaches in the Art department at Reigate College, Surrey.